Editing Nothing's Shocking (section)

==Legacy==

In a retrospective review, [[AllMusic]]'s Greg Prato called ''Nothing's Shocking'' a "now classic" album and "a must-have for lovers of cutting-edge, influential, and timeless hard rock."<ref name="AM"/> Steve Hochman, writing in the 2004 edition of ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', regarded it as an "often stunning" work whose songs juxtapose "slinky Zeppelin thunder with personal/poetic imagery recalling [[Lou Reed]]."<ref name="RSAG"/> "Even with all the baggage of prophecy and influence," wrote Ian Cohen of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', "''Nothing's Shocking'' lives as a poignant, almost quixotic work of [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] imagination".<ref name="Pitchfork"/> ''Pitchfork'' listed it as one of the 1980s' best albums in 2002, ranking it 90th,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-top-100-albums-of-the-1980s/?page=2 |title=The Top 100 Albums of the 1980s |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=November 21, 2002 |access-date=October 20, 2022 |page=2}}</ref> and in 2018, ranking it 134th.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/?page=4 |title=The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=September 10, 2018 |access-date=October 20, 2022 |page=4}}</ref> In 2006, ''Q'' named it the 32nd best album of the 1980s.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=40 Best Albums of the '80s |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=241 |date=August 2006 |pages=84–89}}</ref> ''Nothing's Shocking'' was ranked at number 312 on ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s 2012 edition of its "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]" list.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/janes-addiction-nothings-shocking-44518/ |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=May 31, 2012 |access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref>

''Nothing's Shocking'' influenced me a lot, especially with what Eric Avery proposed from the bass," said [[Nick Oliveri]], founder of [[Kyuss]] and [[Mondo Generator]] and former member of [[Queens of the Stone Age]]. "Eric had written the music on his own, the guitars and the drums came later. So he inspired me on that side, it is very possible that they were the first really alternative band."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.periodismo.com/2019/03/07/el-ritual-de-janes-addiction-de-fabrizio-pedrotti/|title=Adelanto de "El ritual de Jane's Addiction", de Fabrizio Pedrotti|website=Periodismo.com|date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>